Saturday, April 2, 2022

Color slide tour of Walla Walla in the 1950s and 1960s by Kirk Brewer Casper (1900-1987); - downtown, houses, depots, Pioneer Park, and more, courtesy of Jennifer Casper and the Casper family.

Baker house, 330 Craig, 1953

Baker-Boyer Bank, 1966

Bee Hive & Hughes, 1966

Die Brucke, Book Nook, Peerless Dentist, KTEL, Robinson Sewing Machines, 1966

Second Ave looking North; Capitol Theater, Model Grocery, 1958

Chinese Co-op Building, 5th & Main, 1954

County Court House, 1954

Dacres Hotel, Little's Drug Store, 1962

Drumheller Building, 1966

Congregational Church, 1953

Grand Hotel, 1962

Grand Hotel, looking east on Alder St., 1962

Hungate house, 202 N. 2nd, 1953

Kirkman house, 1953

Lewis Felch house on Home Street, 1953

Livery stable on Alder & 12th, 1956

Mathison house, 364 Catherine St, 1957

Miles Moore house on Bryant Street, 1953

NP Depot, 1954

J. Ferdinand Patterson grave stone in Mountain View Cemetery, 1962

Pioneer Park bandstand, 1953

Bandstand, 1966


Swans on Pioneer Park pond, 1966

Note bridges to island

Rees house, 260 E. Birch, 1966

Reynolds cabin before move to Fort Walla Walla Museum, 1953

Reynolds house, 1953

Ritz house on Plaza Way, October 1954

Robert Moore house on Bryant street, 1953

Schwarz building at 1st & Main, Bendix Music, Dickey's, mailbox, 1966


St. Mary's Hospital, 1953

St. Paul's Church, 1950s

Starrett Feed & Seed, 16 West Birch, 1958

Stencil Building, Reeds Millinery, 1962

Stubblefield Home at south end of Home Street, 1953

Union Pacific Depot at west end of Main Street, 1958

Wa-Hi on Palouse St, 1951

Wa-Hi on Park St, 1958

WW Brewing Company on 2nd Ave, 1958

"The Castle"